I installed a new module and it appears as if one of its dependencies was not already installed. The module is called Xlib.display. Here is the error message I received:
from Xlib.display import Display
ImportError: No module named Xlib.display
Where can I find this module that I am apparently lacking? Google yielded no leads.
"Edit: I already have that sourceforge module downloaded but I still get the same resutls.
Please try.
This shall install Xlib
sudo apt-get install python-xlib
Then you can check
>>from Xlib.display import Display
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Below worked for me!
pip install python3_xlib
I have also used pyuserinput for automation which requires this.
I was having the same problem, but the solutions above didn't work for me. Since I had installed python through the anaconda package, when I used:
sudo apt-get install python-xlib
Xlib was still undetectable by python2. The solution in my case was to use:
anaconda search -t conda python-xlib
Then find the package from the anaconda api, mine was erik/python-xlib. Install it using:
conda install --channel https://conda.anaconda.org/erik python-xlib
Then it worked.
On Debian systems install python-xlib.
On other systems there's a high probability that the package carries the same name.
I don't think the Xlib library works in Python 3.
Source:
Requirements
The Python X Library requires Python 1.5.2 or newer. It has been tested to various extents with Python 1.5.2 and 2.0 through 2.6.
I was looking for the same answer, however after some more digging it seems that XCB (X protocol C-language Binding) will obsolete Xlib in general. From the XCB website:
The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility.
Fortunately there are python bindings available as python-xpyb in apt or xpyb on PyPi. I've not gotten that far in my project so I haven't tested if this works with Python3, but this is probably the way to go and the proper place to file any Python3 support bugs if necessary.
I honestly cant explain why this works... but here is the command that got it working for me.
sudo apt-get install python3-xlib
Should not work because xlib apparently does not work with python 3.x, but everything installed alright, so I'm not complaining!
I was trying to use screenshot functionalities of pyautogui package. I was getting this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test_screenshot.py", line 1, in <module>
import pyautogui
File ".../miniconda3/envs/myenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyautogui/__init__.py", line 152, in <module>
from . import _pyautogui_x11 as platformModule
File ".../miniconda3/envs/myenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyautogui/_pyautogui_x11.py", line 7, in <module>
from Xlib.display import Display
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Xlib'
Python code (test_screenshot.py):
import pyautogui
img = pyautogui.screenshot('test.png')
Environment:
requirements.txt:
certifi==2019.3.9
Pillow==5.4.1
PyAutoGUI==0.9.42
PyGetWindow==0.0.4
PyMsgBox==1.0.6
PyRect==0.1.4
PyScreeze==0.1.20
PyTweening==1.0.3
I installed python-xlib package in the conda environment using:
pip install python-xlib
Now test_screenshot.py is running without any error.
Updated requirements.txt:
certifi==2019.3.9
Pillow==5.4.1
PyAutoGUI==0.9.42
PyGetWindow==0.0.4
PyMsgBox==1.0.6
PyRect==0.1.4
PyScreeze==0.1.20
python-xlib==0.25
PyTweening==1.0.3
six==1.12.0
